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View near Orleans
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About this work
The Dutch artist Isaac de Moucheron’s view of a rural hillside is inscribed in Dutch “Buyten Orleans” (outside Orleans), indicating that he made the drawing while passing through France on a journey from the Netherlands to Italy. De Moucheron likely captured this scene with graphite and ink while on-site and then finished it later with gray, brown, and pink washes. Many Dutch artists took Italian sojourns to sketch the landscape, antique sculpture, and architecture.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineView near Orleans, c. 1695–97. Isaac de Moucheron (Dutch, 1667–1744). Pen and brown ink, grey, brown, pink-brown, and pale grey mixed with white washes, with traces of graphite underdrawing on laid paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink; support: 35.2 x 42.5 cm (13 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.); matted: 38.4 x 46.8 x 0.5 cm (15 1/8 x 18 7/16 x 3/16 in.); image: 22.8 x 29.4 cm (9 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.17
